@True concern I know I can relate to what you're saying. Sometimes it is easier to love others over yourself. We're so darn hard on ourselves aren't we? It's easier to have compassion on others sometimes, but I think part of life's journey is to teach us to forgive ourselves and love ourselves despite everything. I think Christianity teachers this quite well.
We've all got this carnal nature, the old man, sinful nature as they refer to it. In Psychology they call it the ego or shadow. That's the part of us that we don't like or hate. That's the part of us that's wounded. That's the part of us that we think we are, but we're really not that part LOL. We are not the carnal nature, we are not the sinful nature, we are not the ego, we are not the shadow, we are not the crappy things we've done in the past and we are not our negative thoughts or emotions.
We are a spark of divine creation, created from some wondrous, luminous, powerful energy that you can call whatever you want. The part of us that will live on after this stinky ole' flesh rots in the ground or goes back to the Earth as I like to say. We do not have to identify with the old anymore. Rather than new. Self-forgiveness is a choice.... So go easy on your "self".... Choose love... self-love.
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